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TVShows is a Mac OS X application that automatically downloads torrents of your favourite shows. You no longer need to manually download torrent files, or find a working RSS feed for each show you wish to subscribe to. TVShows does that for you. Simply select your subscriptions and set your preferences from within the TVShows application and we'll take care of the rest. TVShows uses a lightweight background process which automatically launches at a regular interval (chosen by you) to check for new episodes.

Features:

  • Background Process: There's no need to run TVShows constantly. A silent and unobtrusive background process will download new episodes as soon as they are available.
  • Quality Selection: Choose your preferred quality settings (Normal, High or Very High) and TVShows will download the closest one available.
  • Show List: Stop hunting for individual, working torrents and RSS feeds. TVShows does all the hard work for you. Just search for the show then click Subscribe.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.4.7:
  • Fixes a compiling issue in 0.4.6 that would prevent TVShows from running on anything but Snow Leopard.
  • Fixed a critical bug where no episodes would be downloaded. This was unrelated to the EZTV outage.
  • Blocked more Doctor Who episodes (seriously?!).
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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Developer:TVShows Project
Downloads:21,347
  - Version d/l:1,382
Multimedia & Design:Video
License:Free
Date:19 Jan 2010
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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TVshows User Reviews (45 posts)Write A Review
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Jan 28 2010

JEFF H.  It hasn't worked here since eztv went down and came back up.

Anyone else?  
(Version 0.4.7)

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Jan 24 2010

MATTPRICE  Sorry about a bug in 0.4.6 that prevented TVShows from launching on anything other than Snow Leopard. TVShows 0.4.7 has fixed this issue and everything should be working fine now. :)

(Also, ezRSS was down for most of the month. I'm working on custom RSS feeds so that maybe we can offload some of our requests onto other servers and help those guys out.)  
(Version 0.4.7)

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Jan 19 2010

IKADO  0.4.7 released in dev's site (http://deathtobunnies.com/tvshows/). it seems a bug prevented launching on any system previous to snow leopard...

at least, it works for me now (10.4.11 PPC)  
(Version 0.4.6)

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Jan 19 2010

TUTOR  Works for me. too. Even downloads new episodes ;-)  
(Version 0.4.7)

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0
Jan 19 2010

GCOGHILL  Yep, 0.4.7 working now. Thanks!  
(Version 0.4.7)

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Jan 19 2010

SHANE C SMITH  I'm really not sure what is going on with this program. I'm not having problems like some other people with launching, but I do have a problem downloading torrents? It can see new episodes but won't download them?  
(Version 0.4.6)

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Jan 18 2010

GCOGHILL  This version doesn't launch for me on 10.5.8  
(Version 0.4.6)

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Jan 18 2010

TUTOR  Yeah, crashes on launch for me, too. On 10.5.8 Intel. Haven't tried trouble shooting yet.

From crash log:

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Crashed Thread: 0

Dyld Error Message:

unknown required load command 0x80000022  
(Version 0.4.6)

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Jan 19 2010

IKADO  same for me on 10.4.11 PPC...  
(Version 0.4.6)

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Jan 16 2010

RONL  Does NOT work.  
(Version 0.4.5)

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Jan 16 2010

ALGOS  Very helpful comment!

If you had read the comments just below yours you would have found out that it currently does not work because the EZTV website is down. Once that is back up it will work fine...  
(Version 0.4.5)

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Jan 12 2010

SHANE C SMITH  I'm not sure what has happened lately with this program, right now I can't get it to work. All subscriptions do nothing?  
(Version 0.4.5)

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Jan 12 2010

SHANE C SMITH  I've reinstalled it and it still doesn't work. I have noticed the subscriptions are old so it might not be the program but the list it's reading.  
(Version 0.4.5)

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Jan 12 2010

RAVON  eztv.it (where ezrss and TVShows get their information) is currently down due to hardware problems and has been for a few days now. When the site gets back up TVShows should start working again.

If only we could add custom RSS feeds.  
(Version 0.4.5)

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Jan 11 2010

MIKAELF  Cool app but it stopped working after I installed Little Snitch. Can't figure out what process I need to create a rule for in Little Snitch...any ideas?  
(Version 0.4.5)

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Jan 13 2010

RAVON  Probably ruby. It looks like TVShows calls ruby to execute its scripts and download series information.  
(Version 0.4.5)

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Jan 24 2010

MATTPRICE  Correct. You'll need to allow access for TVShows.app and also for Ruby (/usr/bin/ruby) in Little Snitch.  
(Version 0.4.7)

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Jan 11 2010

MARLUCCO  I love TVShows to death. But since the turn of the year it hasn't working at all for me.

I've checked the ezrss site and saw that in there they aren't updating the feeds as well, so I don't know if it's only a feeds problem or a app one as well.

Either way, LOVE THE APP! Would love more if it was working :OP

m.  
(Version 0.4.5)

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Dec 11 2009
*****

TIMPLASTER  This is one of the best apps. I don't even have to think about it, and within minutes of the show being aired, it begins downloading on my Mac. And it uses some of the best torrents, it only takes about 15 minutes to download a show! Great app, thank you so much.  
(Version 0.4.4)

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+2
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